ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL USA

FREE AND OPEN TO MARCH 26, 7:00 PM THE PUBLIC Il giorno in più (One More Day), 112 min., Romantic Comedy, Italian with English subtitles

All screenings will Massimo Venier's romantic comedy Il giorno in più is based on a bestselling begin at 7:00 pm in the novel by leading actor Fabio Volo (Weddings and Other Disasters), and tells University Center the story of a forty-year-old man who is firmly intent on continuing to collect Theatre at the women without marrying any of them, but eventually falls for a confirmed University of Memphis. The films will be bachelorette who has her sights set on moving to New York. The film was followed by coffee and first presented at the Turin Film Festival in November 2011 and was refreshments nominated for best song for the Silver Ribbon in 2012.

Paid parking is MARCH 28, 7:00 PM available in the Zach La nave dolce (The Human Cargo), 90 min., Documentary, Curlin Parking Garage, Italian with English subtitles next to the University Center Awarded the Pasinetti and Biografilm prizes at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, Daniele Vicari’s La nave dolce represents and documents the onset of Mediterranean migrations to Italy, with the August 8, 1991 arrival at the Italian For specific inquiries, please, email Cosetta coastal city of Bari of the hijacked ship Vlora loaded with 20,000 Albanians Gaudenzi: willing to migrate to that country. In Vicari’s cinematic work, several historical [email protected] protagonists narrate the events providing their own multifaceted perspectives. The event is sponsored by The Department of Foreign APRIL 2, 7:00 PM Languages and Literatures and the Cesare deve morire ( Must Die), 76 min., Docufiction, Marcus W. Orr Center Italian with English subtitles for the Humanities at Winner of the at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival and of five David the University of of Donatellos for best film, director, editing, producer and sound, Paolo and Memphis. The Festival is made possible by Vittorio Taviani’s Cesare deve morire was made in Rome’s Rebibbia high- the support of the security prison, where a group of inmates are preparing to stage Italian Film Festival Shakespeare’s . Hardened criminals, many with links to USA, The Italian organized crime, these actors find great motivation in performing the play, Culture Institute of Chicago, and UNICO showing art’s transforming impact on the most unexpected people.